Yahya Abdul-Mateen II: You Have to ‘Get Over Yourself’ to Star in ‘Clown Work’ Like ‘Aquaman’

[Tryna Makit]

Damn..... media training really is a must lol.


I hate when they give them "Im just happy to be here" ass answers but it's better than putting your foot in your mouth or getting misquoted and potentially fukkin up an opportunity

 

[Concerned Citizen]

If you can't equate an underwater villain with a big ass helmet twice the size of his head with a clown then you're having your own issues.

All superheroes are people dressed up is crazy outfits trying to entertain. Ain't nothing cerebral or noble about it.

And thats FINE. Sometimes you want clowns and sometimes you want to read a textbook.

You’re painting super hero movies with too broad a brush and bringing the nuance into the statement that he should’ve if he was gonna use that term, which he didn’t even have to.

Not even comedians refer to their work as clown work and their whole point is to make you laugh.

 

[Luke Cage]

You can sense the cornyness they feel about a project in their performance.

to him it's clown work, meanwhile you have dudes who played literal clowns in comicbook movies winning acting awards.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Meh sounds entitled, work is work I bet he didn't get a clown check.

Them Yale Drama School alums are deep and talented. I get it that he wants to balance his roles. Shouldn't have said clown work though knowing how sensitive mufukkaz are nowadays.


And fukk all yall, he was a beast as Black Manta. Now even going to get into him as Dr Manhattan.

My oldest kid wants to get into acting, but them Yale prices.


Yale Drama School alums:



Angela Bassett
Merryl Streep
Courtney Vance
Charles "Roc" Dutton
Lupita Nyong'O
Winston Duke
David Alan Grier
Ernie Hudson
Sigourney Weaver
Lance Reddikk
Kathryn Hann
John Turturro
Yahya Abdul Mateen II
Sanaa Lathan
Henry Winkler
Liev Schreiber
Paul Giamatti
Brian Tyree Henry

 

[AnonymityX1000]

Them Yale Drama School alums are deep and talented. I get it that he wants to balance his roles. Shouldn't have said clown work though knowing how sensitive mufukkaz are nowadays.


And fukk all yall, he was a beast as Black Manta. Now even going to get into him as Dr Manhattan.

My oldest kid wants to get into acting, but them Yale prices.


Yale Drama School alums:



Angela Bassett
Merryl Streep
Courtney Vance
Charles "Roc" Dutton
Lupita Nyong'O
Winston Duke
David Alan Grier
Ernie Hudson
Sigourney Weaver
Lance Reddikk
Kathryn Hann
John Turturro
Yahya Abdul Mateen II
Sanaa Lathan
Henry Winkler
Liev Schreiber
Paul Giamatti
Brian Tyree Henry

Don Harvey to. I did coke with him in LA a decade ago. lol

 

[Rekkapryde]

Don Harvey to. I did coke with him in LA a decade ago. lol

 

[Tryna Makit]

In a way Im glad he said it tho, like @Luke Cage said you can tell in their performances if they are into or not.

It makes me wonder how many other actors consider these comic book roles some clown shyt.

With all the clout, all the hype, all the press he gets(deservedly) I wonder if a guy like Jonathan Majors feels like that....or if Chadwick Boseman felt like that?......I doubt Cheadle and Jackson feel that way

It's not a bad thing to feel because Scorsese broke the internet for a min when he said something similar....it just might not be smart to vocalize if you still gonna be trying to get work...

 

[Dem313wayz]

smh my nikka Cadillac about to get blackballed

Hope not. Cadillac was my nikka

 

[Apollo Creed]

That was the first role I seen him in and he reminded me of a rip off Michael jai white as Black Manta. I liked him in candyman but he was limited due to the script.

yeah Aquaman was campy as hell cause it tried to be like a MCU flick.

Dude has range but the scripts he has been involved with just aint been good. I couldn't even finish that matrix flick.

Dude is my choice to be the Tchalla recast I will say

 

[semicko82]

I get what he's saying you basically have to do the popcorn movies so the movies with a "message " can get play

 

[Roid Jones]

Comic book fans and their inferiority complex, this is fun

 

[Roid Jones]

I doubt this has any effect on his career. Maybe with people who worked on Aquaman directly but I doubt a Yonex else will care.

Coli has told me he will get blackballed, coli is never wrong

 

[Roid Jones]

he isnt good enough to be talking like that, but i hope his career doesnt take a hit. everybody slips ups eventually, LOL.

 

[FlyRy]

Some of you nerds sound hurt

 

[NZA]

i should add that i also think aquaman was clown shyt